OH that's so exciting!!! Do you have a picture?!?!?

Question: did you or your foreign fiance(e) get the TB skin test or just the Xrays. Is the skin test now a requirement? Just wondering - I may make him get it in Australia before he arrives if needed for AOS. Thanks.

PICTURES!!! PICTURES!!! PICTURES!!!

Sally, sending you BIG HUGS. I got busy last week organizing my sister's debut (18th birthday party) but I kept checking this thread to check if you have posted any update.. I was thinking that you would get the result right after the ct scan. Gosh, the added several days of waiting for somethng you don't know! Not knowing what will be the outcome must be stressful... but it will be ok... everything will be ok with you Sal.

Sam: US embassy here in the Philippines requires TB skin test for kids not for adults.

I have read somewhere that when you are on K1/K2 you wont need to undergo another medical for AOS but I don't know about TB skin test.

I've been reading around trying to keep myself busy and I've run into threads regarding the TB skin test being requested for AOS... soo I guess I'd rather avoid the RFE and get it taken care of. I'm still trying to decide if we'll go the extra mile and have the K1 medical results transcribed by a civil surgeon to that I-693 or whatever it is..
Sorry for posting these random questions in this particular thread - I figured we'd all be running into the same issues at some point anyway.

AOS sounds like it's going to be another headache all round.

Congratulations to Nicole and Marco!

my kids have had the skin test already and they were positive on the skin test due to BCG vaccination(bacille Calmette-Guérin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) when they were babies. I am now wondering if I should get it for myself here, if that will be a requirement for AOS.

I just called my doctors and the results are not in yet.

Woooooooooooohoooo, Congratulations!!!

Hang in there Sally .... you are in our thoughts!!! We are both hoping for the positive outcome so you and Jay came move on!!!!!

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Very pretty!!!!! I just got a card in the mail that says my dress arrived from the manufacturer last week. I have to go and pick it up soon .... then the fittings and fun begin

I was lucky; the dress almost fits me perfectly off the rack!!! But I know I will have to get it altered if I lose any weight, which I'm planning to do!!!

Time for bridal bootcamp!!!

Your gown is beautiful Dawn... I hope I could find THE DRESS soon also.

Can't wait to see your gown Amanda.. but I can't wait more to see all of you in your wedding dress.

A few pictures..

Hmm it won't allow me to upload any more photos...

I LOVE IT!

GORGEOUS!!! MORE PICS!!! MORE PICS!!! MORE PICS!!!

there is a limit to the pics you can upload directly on the forum but you could upload in the vj gallery or other photo sharing sites and then provide link on the thread when you post.

thank you for sharing your pics nicole, i hope you could share some more.

Dawn, your dress looks beautiful!

And Nicole, yours is beautiful too. I can't wait to see more pictures!!!

you look beautiful, congrats and thanks for posting.

Awww Nicole... so beautiful. Congratulations again.

Dawn.. that's a gorgeous dress and i'm sure you will look lovely in it.

At this point i'd be happy getting married in my Jammies!

you looked so pretty nicole! i wanna see more pics and that dress is really pretty dawn My turn!! Paul shall be here tomorrow evening! woo woooo Just have to keep myself busy with work hehe

I hoping that his POE is hassle-free!!!

Nicole, you look so great together!!!!

The two of you looked fabulous!!!! Congratulations again!!!!!
Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!

I hear ya there ... I was lucky too, mine fit me quite well, but needs just a bit of alterations!!! I'm going to pick it up next week, but won't have the alterations done until August.

I can't wait to see it too!!! The one I tried on had black accents, not navy blue, so it will be nice to see it finally in navy -- I did see a similar dress by the same designer with navy, so I know it will be just right!!!

I just picked up a "casual" dress for our civil service .... and the countdown is on .... 2 days, 1 hour until we have our civil ceremony. We are going to Duke Gardens and the reverend who is performing our family ceremony/vow renewal is going to take care of our civil. He suggested the gazebo at Duke Gardens -- and hey, no admission charge to just go in, and have the quick legal ceremony

Another step completed ... we went back down to the Social Security Administration today, Stephen was in the SAVE system - so he'll have his SSN# in 5-10 days!!!

Yayyyyyy!!

wtg Amanda

I know this isn't the right forum, but I thought I'd mention it anyways.. We filed our AOS today!! It was particularly painful to write that $1010 check, but I guess we know what it's good for...

How is everyone today?!

We just have to look at it as a relationship investment!!!

Congratulations Nicole!!! Hopefully Stephen and I will have everything we need to file before the end of this month.

6 hours and counting until we are "legally" married ... and to our surprise, neither one of us is the least bit nervous!!!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!!!!!!

Good luck Amanda and Stephen, happy days

Amanda... the very best to you. Congratulations!

Which should be about now!!! Congrats, and have a great day!!! Darren and I should be joining you in a few weeks!!!

By now you are probably officially married.

BIG CONGRATS MRS. STEPHEN

Aww!! Congratulations!!

Hello everyone!
I don't think i have ever posted on this theread or maybe i did a while back...Don't know for sure...

Just wanted to say that before we started this process, in March, i used to read posts of people that were already in the middle of it....especially or January filers...And now that i went back to the thread and saw that some couples are already married or just very close to it...gave me butterflies in my stomach... It is just soooo exciting to see a very happy ending to all this mess...
Congratulations to everyone!!!
VJ rocks

Gaye, I hope you're okay....and out of danger!!! And everybody else in the Pilippines!!!

I second that let us know Gaye please.

I 3rd that!

Thank you very much for the concern Dawn and Sally & Kim... I am deeply touched ... thankfully, typhoons do not visit my hometown so we are safe here... but unfortunately, the other parts of the country is not that lucky, and my father's relatives lives in areas which are experiencing storms right now... as of now, we still don't have news about them

It is Sunday evening here... In our church, we offered a special prayer for the people who were being affected by typhoon, esp the ship that recently sunk here and all other calamities & crisis that our country and even the rest of the world is facing now... we also offered a special prayer for the political fate of the USA.

On a lighter note, our prayer group (our church is divided into several zonal group that meet once a week to pray jointly) surprised a member couple who are celebrating their 25th year together as husband as wife. Each family in our group brought some food over and we had dinner together. It was fun and touching and inspiring...the wife shared about the struggles they went through and how thankful she is that they have overcome all the marital storms still intact... the husband said that if time will turn back, he will still chose to marry his wife and no one else.

I wish and pray that all of us will reach our 25th, 50th & even 75th wedding anniversaries with our current partners...and I hope that we would still be madly in love with our partners (and them with us) by that time.

Aleena: thank you for the congrats... soon you will be with your love one also. Good luck to you.

Thank you again for the thoughts and concerns dawn, sally & kim.

Blessed Sunday everyone.

Glad to see you are ok Gaye. I do hope the same holds true for your loved ones.

What a sweet story about that couple.

I'm glad to hear you are safe Gaye and all the best for your father's family!

Storms are scary... we had a tornado hit my plant Friday of last week. There was 100,000 sq feet totally flattened and several workers cars were totaled. I was off on Friday because mine and Marco's family's were here.


What is everyone up to this weekend? We went shopping yesterday and got some clothes, etc..and then today we went to some waterfalls that are local. Of course they aren't anything like Niagara Falls or anything..but they were cool!

You stay safe also nicole.. Philippines is not the only country being afflicted with typhoons and floods now.. i have been reading about floods in some part of the US also and I wish everyone to be safe always.

Will be going out of town for 3days.. will be visiting my younger sister who is expecting a baby and will also be sending off another sister who is going abroad for work... there is actually 4 family members who are leaving home this year.. first my sister then in a few months time, I and the kids will be leaving also. So it is a little sad but life goes on. we are all just trying to make the most of the remaining days that we have together becoz who knows how many years it will be till we all get together again as a family.

I am getting a little sentimental already.. ...

Well, I wish everyone a happy week and loads of approval for those who are still waiting especially for Mounia, Sunnybear, Shes and of course Kim. and visa for those who are waiting for visa, interview & medical approval for those who will be going for interview & medical and also interview dates soonest for those who are waiting for that.

God bless everyone.

Thanks for all the congratulations Would have posted sooner, but we did a computer free weekend!!! Nope, we didn't go anywhere, because of my work -- we're going to take a 3 day trip to the North Carolina outer banks this coming weekend though.

The reverend did a wonderful little service, instead of the typical civil kind ... so it wasn't so bad. Although we were both nervous once it started ... and it probably didn't help having my mother standing behind Stephen by a few feet, making funny faces at me!!!! Overall, it was a nice little service and Duke Gardens was very pretty. Now we are trying to gather everything for AOS, etc.

Hope everyone had a good weekend!!!

Congrats both of you, but........................but.......................wheres the photos lol.

Congratulations!

LOL .... on the digital camera ... we have a video of it on my digital camera, and my parents have the stills on their digital camera -- I haven't even seen either yet!!!




Thanks I see you are getting closer -- you'll have Packet 4 & interview soon!!!!! Congratulations to the two of you as well!!!

Im now waiting to hear if the embassy will release my visa based on my medical results.

Well they better!!!!!! The medical was clear, so there shouldn't be any problems!!!!!